On December 5, at the 2020 China Annual Conference on Applied Economics, Ning Jizhe, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, Director of the National Bureau of Statistics, and Secretary of the Party Leadership Group, stated that my country’s development during the The Fourth Five-Year Plan laid the foundation. During the “14th Five-Year Plan” period, my country is still in a period of important strategic opportunities for development and still has many advantages. Opportunities and challenges coexist, and challenges can be transformed into opportunities. Photographed by Ning Jizhe, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, Director of the National Bureau of Statistics, and Party Secretary Zhou Dian

Ning Jizhe, Deputy Director of the National Development and Reform Commission, Director of the National Bureau of Statistics, and Party Secretary, Photographed by Zhou Di

Ning Jizhe said that the socialist market economy system has very Enhancing vitality and advancing the reform of “decentralization, regulation, and service” stabilized 130 million market entities. The state encourages entrepreneurship. Regarding the order problems brought about by the active market, when the government supervises the market order, it combines an effective market with a promising government. This is a huge comparative advantage of the socialist market economy system.

“The new business type industry has solved the employment of tens of millions of people. Everyone has adapted to the streets and couriers to deliver goods everywhere. I heard that they are higher than the salary of university graduates. It’s a bit higher.” Ning Jizhe said that in recent years, my country’s digital economy and platform economy have flourished, and new business formats such as e-commerce, e-government, postal, and express delivery have grown rapidly. Compared with the strict supervision of new formats of European and American national teams, my country is more open, allowing new formats to grow for a period of time, and then supervise the problems.

Ning Jizhe said that at present, my country’s traditional advantages of low-cost and high-quality labor resources still exist, and the demographic dividend has not completely disappeared. There are more than 900 million people in the labor force between the ages of 16 and 64, of which 740 million people are actually employed. There is still a lot of room for improvement in terms of labor force and labor participation rate. At the same time, capital, talents, and technology that were previously considered disadvantaged areas have gradually turned into current advantages.

In addition, factors such as a solid material foundation, rich human resources, improved governance efficiency, broad market space, strong development resilience, and stable social Formed a comprehensive comparative advantage.

“The most important goal of economic development is to achieve sustained and healthy economic development on the basis of significant improvement in quality and efficiency.” Ning Jizhe said that the quality, Putting benefits first, then consider the speed of developmentdegree. It is necessary to give full play to the growth potential of the domestic market, deepen supply-side structural reforms, and significantly enhance innovation capabilities. It is necessary to improve the modernization level of the industrial chain and consolidate the basic position of agriculture. It is necessary to coordinate urban, rural and regional development and build a modern economic system at a high level.